Amazingly, salmon return every fall to spawn in Pipers Creek Watershed. This is an all-too-rare success story in urban creeks that is well worth witnessing and learning more about. A few Chum and Coho salmon were sighted as early as October 19 this year. More fish, if they’re gathering in numbers out in the Sound, will …
Over four weeks this Spring, 28 schools in the Salmon in the Schools program brought their fish to the Carkeek Imprint Pond to be fed and imprinted by CWCAP Imprint Stewards. The school fish will now be fed 3 times per day, 7 days a week until May 13 when they’ll be released at our …
5,000+ school fish are now imprinting at the Carkeek Park! Read More »
Kids are showing up everyday at Carkeek Park with their teachers and parent chaperones to delivery hundreds of salmon to the Salmon Imprint Pond.
We are about to release 32,500 Chum salmon fry into Venema Creek this Saturday, March 25, 2017! This is our 2nd release of the year, which will be followed by 1 more release in mid-May.
Every spring the Suquamish Tribe generously gives to and honors this region by providing 90-100,000 Chum salmon fry to the Carkeek community so that we can pursue a kind of stewardship that would not be possible without their heritage, rights, and agency. Thank you!
